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I Love Our Earth by Bill Martin Junior and Michael Sampson

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I Love Our Earth by Bill Martin Junior and Michael Sampson

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I Love Our Earth (PagePerfect NOOK Book)

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A Year Around the Great Oak by Gerda Muller

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Winner of the Caldecott MedalPatrick McDonnell-beloved, bestselling author-artist and creator of the Mutts syndicated comic strip—shares the inspiring...

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Listen to Our World by Bill Martin Jr. and Michael Sampson

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Listen to Our World by Bill Martin Jr. and Michael Sampson

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Michael Recycle Meets Litterbug Doug by Ellie Bethel ad Alexandra Colombo

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Michael Recycle Meets Litterbug Doug by Ellie Bethel ad Alexandra Colombo

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This book is about a young environmentalist, Michael Recycle, who encounters a litterbug, Doug. This book portrays the "ugliness" of littering and how it takes away from nature's beauty.

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Litterbug Doug is lazy. He is wasteful. He is messy. But worst of all, he hates recycling! The clean and green town where he lives is in danger from his lazy ways...

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Why Are the Ice Caps Melting?: The Dangers of Global Warming by Anne Rockwell and Paul Meisel

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Why Are the Ice Caps Melting?: The Dangers of Global Warming

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Buried Sunlight: How Fossil Fuels Have Changed the Earth by Molly Bang and Penny Chisholm

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Buried Sunlight: How Fossil Fuels Have Changed the Earth by Molly Bang and Penny Chisholm

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Buried Sunlight: How Fossil Fuels Have Changed the Earth

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This is the Earth by Diane Shore and Jessica Alexander

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This is the Earth by Diane Shore and Jessica Alexander

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One Plastic Bag by Miranda Paul and Elizabeth Zunon

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One Plastic Bag by Miranda Paul and Elizabeth Zunon

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The Great Big Green Book by Mary Hoffman and Ros Asquith

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"Think of the future. Can you imagine our planet as beautiful as it used to be? You could be the one to help make it beautiful again, with the things you do and...

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Cleaning up the Earth by Precious McKenzie

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Cleaning up the Earth by Precious McKenzie

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This book discusses how water levels are rising and how to save water at home. It explains how being more resourceful with water will help the environment and provides specific numbers and statistics about water pollution and usage.

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How Carbon Footprints Work by Nick Hunter

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This book explains what a carbon "footprint" is and how humans are causing an increase in carbon emissions. It provides examples of the issues carbon and other greenhouse gasses are causing. The book includes real photographs of people helping the earth and provides examples of different ways to recycle and why those examples will help the earth.

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We Planted a Tree by Diane Muldrow and Bob Staake

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We Planted a Tree by Diane Muldrow and Bob Staake

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Nature Recycles, How About You? by Michelle Lord and Cathy Morrison

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Why Should I Save Water? by Jen Green and Mike Gordon

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Why Should I Save Water? by Jen Green and Mike Gordon

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Choose to Reuse by Lisa Bullard and Wes Thomas

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Choose to Reuse by Lisa Bullard and Wes Thomas

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One Child, One Planet by Bridget McGovern Llewellyn

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One Child, One Planet by Bridget McGovern Llewellyn

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One Child, One Planet: Inspiration for the Young Conservationist

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Why Should I Recycle? by Jen Green and Mike Gordon

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Why Should I Recycle? by Jen Green and Mike Gordon

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Power up to Fight Pollution by Lisa Bullard and Wes Thomas

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Power up to Fight Pollution by Lisa Bullard and Wes Thomas

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This book is about a boy named Tyler who is working on polluting less to save the earth. Tyler gives the reader specific ways to help the environment such as sorting recycling into different bins (cans, paper, bottles), riding bikes instead of driving somewhere, and planting a tree.

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Judy Moody Saves the World by Megan McDonald and Peter Reynolds

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Judy Moody Saves the World by Megan McDonald and Peter Reynolds

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This book is about a quirky girl named Judy who is trying to save the world. Judy goes a little overboard with her reusing and recycling by digging through the garbage and not brushing her teeth to save water, but towards the end her teacher helps give her and the class ways they can recycle. The whole class comes up with a great idea of having a bottle drive to both recycle and raise money for the school.

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Overview

Judy Moody Saves the World! (Judy Moody Series #3) by Megan McDonald, Peter H. Reynolds

It all started with the Crazy-Strip contest -- and the dream that she, Judy Moody, might one day see her very own adhesive-bandage design covering the scraped knees of thousands. But when her "Heal the World" motif merits only an honorable mention, Judy Moody realizes it's time to set her sights on something bigger. Class 3T is studying the environment, and Judy is amazed to learn about the destruction of the rain forest, the endangered species (not) in her own backyard, and her own family's crummy recycling habits. Now she's in a mood to whip the planet into shape -- or her name isn't Judy Monarch Moody!

Product Details

ISBN-13:

9780763648596

Publisher:

Candlewick Press

Publication date:

01/26/2010

Series:

Judy Moody Series , #3

Pages:

160

Sales rank:

37,037

Product dimensions:

5.40(w) x 7.10(h) x 0.60(d)

Lexile:

500L ( what's this?)

Age Range:

6 - 9 Years

About the Author

Megan McDonald is the author of the award-winning JUDY MOODY and JUDY MOODY GETS FAMOUS! and numerous other books for children. After writing JUDY MOODY GETS FAMOUS!, she confessed, "Okay. I admit it. I am Judy Moody. Same-same! In my family of sisters, we're famous for exaggeration. Judy Moody is me . . . exaggerated!"
Megan McDonald lives with her husband, two dogs, two adopted horses, and fifteen wild turkeys who like to hang out on the back porch.

Peter Reynolds is the illustrator of all three JUDY MOODY books. Of JUDY MOODY SAVES THE WORLD! he says, "Judy shows that she can channel her feisty energy to make the world a better place, and I hope this special book will inspire the next generation to 'save the world' too."

Read an Excerpt

A Mr. Rubbish Mood

It was still dark out when Judy woke up early the next morning. She found her flashlight and notebook. Then she tiptoed downstairs to the kitchen and started to save the world.

She hoped she could save the world before breakfast. Judy wondered if other people making the world a better place had to do it quietly, and in the dark, so their parents would not wake up.

She, Judy Moody, was in a Mr. Rubbish Mood. Mr. Rubbish was the Good Garbage Gremlin in Stink's comic book, who built his house out of French-fry cartons and pop bottles. He recycled everything, even lollipop sticks. And he never used anything from the rain forest.

Hmm...things that came from the rain forest. That would be a good place to start. Rubber came from the rain forest. And chocolate and spices and things like perfume. Even chewing gum.

Judy collected stuff from around the house and piled it on the kitchen table. Chocolate bars, brownie mix, vanilla ice cream. Her dad's coffee beans. The rubber toilet plunger. Gum from Stink's gumball machine. Her mom's lipstick from the bottom of her purse. She was so busy saving the rain forest that she didn't hear her family come into the kitchen.

"What in the world...?" Mom said.

"Judy, why are you in the dark?" Dad asked, turning on the lights.

"Hey, my gumball machine!" Stink said.

Judy held out her arms to block the way. "We're not going to use this stuff anymore. It's all from the rain forest," she told them.

"Says who?" asked Stink.

"Says Mr. Rubbish. And Mr. Todd. They cut down way too many trees to grow coffee and give us makeup and chewing gum. Mr. Todd says the earth is our home. We have to take action to save it. We don't need all this stuff."

"I need gum!" yelled Stink. "Give me back my gum!"

"Stink! Don't yell. Haven't you ever heard of noise pollution?"

"Is my coffee in there?" Dad asked, rubbing his hair.

"Judy? Is that ice cream? It's dripping all over the table!" Mom carried the leaky carton over to the sink.

"ZZZZ-ZZZZZ!" Judy made the sound of a chain saw cutting down trees.

"She's batty," Stink said.

Dad put the brownie mix back in the cupboard. Mom took the toilet plunger off the kitchen table and headed for the bathroom.

Time for Plan B. Project R.E.C.Y.C.L.E. She, Judy Moody, would show her family just how much they hurt the planet. Every time someone threw something away, she would write it down. She got her notebook and looked in the trash can. She wrote down: 1 orange juice can, 1 inside of peanut butter jar lid, 1 plastic bread bag, 4 broken egg shells, smelly yucky wet coffee grouns, 3 paper muffin holders, 2 smooshed Scarlett O'Cherry juice boxes (and straws!), 1/2 bowl of oatmeal.

"Stink! You shouldn't throw gooey old oatmeal in the trash!" Judy said.

"Dad! Tell her to quit spying on me!"

"I'm a garbage detective!" said Judy. "Garbologist to you. Mr. Todd sais if you want to learn what to recycle, you have to get to know your garbage."

"Here," said Stink, sticking something wet and mushy under Judy's nose. "Get to know my apple core."

"Hardee har har," said Judy. "Hasn't anybody in this family ever heard of the Three R's?"

"The Three R's?" asked Dad.

"Re-use. Re-cycle."

"What's the third one?" asked Stink.

"Re-fuse to talk to little brothers until they quit throwing stuff away."

"Mom! I'm not going to stop throwing stuff away just because Judy's having a trash attack."

"Look at all this stuff we throw away!" Judy said. "Did you konw that one person throws away more than eight pounds of garbage a day?"

"We recycle all our glass and cans," said Mom.

"And newspapers," Dad said.

"But what about this?" said Judy, picking up a plastic bag out of the trash. This bread bag could be a purse! Or carry a library book!"
"What's so great about eggshells?" asked Stink. "And smelly old ground-up coffee?"

"You can use them to feed plants. Or make compost." Just then, something caught her eye. A pile of Popsicle sticks? Judy pulled it out. "Hey! My Laura Ingalls Wilder log cabin I made in second grade!"

"It looks like a glue museum to me," said Stink.

"I'm sorry, Judy," Mom said. "I should have asked first, but we can't save everything, honey."

"Recycle it! said Stink. "You could use it for kindling, to start a fire! Or break it down into toothpicks."

"Not funny, Stink."

"Judy, you're not even ready for school yet. Let's talk about this later," said Dad. "It's time to get dressed."

It was no use. Nobody listened to her. Judy trudged upstairs, feeling like a sloth without a tree. . . .

Her family sure knew how to ruin a perfectly good Mr. Rubbish mood. She put on her jeans and her Spotted Owl T-shirt. And to save water, she did not brush her teeth.

She compled downstairs in a mad-at-your-whole-family mood.

"Here's your lunch," said Mom.

"Mom! It's in a paper bag!"

"What's wrong with that?" Stink asked.

"Don't you get it?" said Judy. "They cut down trees to make paper bags. Trees give shade. They help control global warming. We would die without trees. They make oxygen and help take dust and stuff out of the air."

"Dust!" said Mom. "Let's talk about cleaniing your room if we're going to talk about dust."

"Mo-om!" How was she supposed to do important things like save trees if she couldn't even save her FAMILY tree?

JUDY MOODY SAVES THE WORLD by Megan McDonald. Copyright (c) 2002 by Megan McDonald. Published by Candlewick Press, Inc., Cambridge, MA.

First Chapter

A Mr. Rubbish Mood

It was still dark out when Judy woke up early the next morning. She found her flashlight and notebook. Then she tiptoed downstairs to the kitchen and started to save the world.

She hoped she could save the world before breakfast. Judy wondered if other people making the world a better place had to do it quietly, and in the dark, so their parents would not wake up.

She, Judy Moody, was in a Mr. Rubbish Mood. Mr. Rubbish was the Good Garbage Gremlin in Stink's comic book, who built his house out of French-fry cartons and pop bottles. He recycled everything, even lollipop sticks. And he never used anything from the rain forest.

Hmm...things that came from the rain forest. That would be a good place to start. Rubber came from the rain forest. And chocolate and spices and things like perfume. Even chewing gum.

Judy collected stuff from around the house and piled it on the kitchen table. Chocolate bars, brownie mix, vanilla ice cream. Her dad's coffee beans. The rubber toilet plunger. Gum from Stink's gumball machine. Her mom's lipstick from the bottom of her purse. She was so busy saving the rain forest that she didn't hear her family come into the kitchen.

"What in the world...?" Mom said.

"Judy, why are you in the dark?" Dad asked, turning on the lights.

"Hey, my gumball machine!" Stink said.

Judy held out her arms to block the way. "We're not going to use this stuff anymore. It's all from the rain forest," she told them.

"Says who?" asked Stink.

"Says Mr. Rubbish. And Mr. Todd. They cut down way too many trees to grow coffee and give us makeup and chewing gum. Mr. Todd says the earth is our home. We have to take action to save it. We don't need all this stuff."

"I need gum!" yelled Stink. "Give me back my gum!"

"Stink! Don't yell. Haven't you ever heard of noise pollution?"

"Is my coffee in there?" Dad asked, rubbing his hair.

"Judy? Is that ice cream? It's dripping all over the table!" Mom carried the leaky carton over to the sink.

"ZZZZ-ZZZZZ!" Judy made the sound of a chain saw cutting down trees.

"She's batty," Stink said.

Dad put the brownie mix back in the cupboard. Mom took the toilet plunger off the kitchen table and headed for the bathroom.

Time for Plan B. Project R.E.C.Y.C.L.E. She, Judy Moody, would show her family just how much they hurt the planet. Every time someone threw something away, she would write it down. She got her notebook and looked in the trash can. She wrote down: 1 orange juice can, 1 inside of peanut butter jar lid, 1 plastic bread bag, 4 broken egg shells, smelly yucky wet coffee grouns, 3 paper muffin holders, 2 smooshed Scarlett O'Cherry juice boxes (and straws!), 1/2 bowl of oatmeal.

"Stink! You shouldn't throw gooey old oatmeal in the trash!" Judy said.

"Dad! Tell her to quit spying on me!"

"I'm a garbage detective!" said Judy. "Garbologist to you. Mr. Todd sais if you want to learn what to recycle, you have to get to know your garbage."

"Here," said Stink, sticking something wet and mushy under Judy's nose. "Get to know my apple core."

"Hardee har har," said Judy. "Hasn't anybody in this family ever heard of the Three R's?"

"The Three R's?" asked Dad.

"Re-use. Re-cycle."

"What's the third one?" asked Stink.

"Re-fuse to talk to little brothers until they quit throwing stuff away."

"Mom! I'm not going to stop throwing stuff away just because Judy's having a trash attack."

"Look at all this stuff we throw away!" Judy said. "Did you konw that one person throws away more than eight pounds of garbage a day?"

"We recycle all our glass and cans," said Mom.

"And newspapers," Dad said.

"But what about this?" said Judy, picking up a plastic bag out of the trash. This bread bag could be a purse! Or carry a library book!"
"What's so great about eggshells?" asked Stink. "And smelly old ground-up coffee?"

"You can use them to feed plants. Or make compost." Just then, something caught her eye. A pile of Popsicle sticks? Judy pulled it out. "Hey! My Laura Ingalls Wilder log cabin I made in second grade!"

"It looks like a glue museum to me," said Stink.

"I'm sorry, Judy," Mom said. "I should have asked first, but we can't save everything, honey."

"Recycle it! said Stink. "You could use it for kindling, to start a fire! Or break it down into toothpicks."

"Not funny, Stink."

"Judy, you're not even ready for school yet. Let's talk about this later," said Dad. "It's time to get dressed."

It was no use. Nobody listened to her. Judy trudged upstairs, feeling like a sloth without a tree. . . .

Her family sure knew how to ruin a perfectly good Mr. Rubbish mood. She put on her jeans and her Spotted Owl T-shirt. And to save water, she did not brush her teeth.

She compled downstairs in a mad-at-your-whole-family mood.

"Here's your lunch," said Mom.

"Mom! It's in a paper bag!"

"What's wrong with that?" Stink asked.

"Don't you get it?" said Judy. "They cut down trees to make paper bags. Trees give shade. They help control global warming. We would die without trees. They make oxygen and help take dust and stuff out of the air."

"Dust!" said Mom. "Let's talk about cleaniing your room if we're going to talk about dust."

"Mo-om!" How was she supposed to do important things like save trees if she couldn't even save her FAMILY tree?

JUDY MOODY SAVES THE WORLD by Megan McDonald. Copyright (c) 2002 by Megan McDonald. Published by Candlewick Press, Inc., Cambridge, MA.

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Supplemental Text 1--Photographs by Daniel Bergmann

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Supplemental Text 1--Photographs by Daniel Bergmann

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Daniel Bergmann photographs breathtaking landscapes in Iceland. Students will observe these photographs of nature.

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Supplemental Text 2--Video, The Beauty of Nature

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After students read Listen to Our World, they will walk around outside for 30 minutes and just listen. Students will write down a few visual observations, but try to listen to see how many different sounds from nature they can hear. Students will guess what the sound is and write it down. Once back in the classroom, I will take a few volunteers to tell me what they heard, and look up a picture of that animal or organism to show to the class.

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After reading I Love Our Earth, students will look at the pictures by Daniel Bergmann. I will have multiple pictures to give to each group of students (students will be sitting in groups). First, students will talk in their groups about what they love in each picture or why it is pretty to them. Then, students will write a brief story titled "Why I Love My Earth," and include a drawing that relates to their story. I will have the students share their story to their group members, then have each group select one story from their group to read to the whole class.

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Supplemental Text 1--Video What if All the Ice Caps Melted?

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Supplemental Text 1--Video What if All the Ice Caps Melted?

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Students will watch the video about global warming and melting ice caps.

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What If All The Ice Melted On Earth? ft. Bill Nye

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Students will look at this chart describing the giant leap carbon dioxide has had in recent years.

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Climate Change: Vital Signs of the Planet

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The rate of change since the mid-20th century is unprecedented over millennia.

Earth's climate has changed throughout history. Just in the last 800,000 years, there have been eight cycles of ice ages and warmer periods, with the end of the last ice age about 11,700 years ago marking the beginning of the modern climate era - and of human civilization. Most of these climate changes are attributed to very small variations in Earth's orbit that change the amount of solar energy our planet receives.

This graph, based on the comparison of atmospheric samples contained in ice cores and more recent direct measurements, provides evidence that atmospheric CO2 has increased since the Industrial Revolution. (Credit: Luthi, D., et al.. 2008; Etheridge, D.M., et al. 2010; Vostok ice core data/J.R. Petit et al.; NOAA Mauna Loa CO2 record.) Find out more about ice cores (external site).

The current warming trend is different because it is clearly the result of human activities since the mid-1800s, and is proceeding at a rate not seen over many recent millennia. It is undeniable that human activities have produced the atmospheric gases that have trapped more of the Sun's energy in the Earth system. This extra energy has warmed the atmosphere, ocean, and land, and widespread and rapid changes in the atmosphere, ocean, cryosphere, and biosphere have occurred.

Do scientists agree on climate change?

Yes, the vast majority of actively publishing climate scientists - 97 percent - agree that humans are causing global warming and climate change.

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Earth-orbiting satellites and new technologies have helped scientists see the big picture, collecting many different types of information about our planet and its climate all over the world. These data, collected over many years, reveal the signs and patterns of a changing climate.

Scientists demonstrated the heat-trapping nature of carbon dioxide and other gases in the mid-19th century. Many of the science instruments NASA uses to study our climate focus on how these gases affect the movement of infrared radiation through the atmosphere. From the measured impacts of increases in these gases, there is no question that increased greenhouse gas levels warm Earth in response.

"Scientific evidence for warming of the climate system is unequivocal."

- Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

Ice cores drawn from Greenland, Antarctica, and tropical mountain glaciers show that Earth's climate responds to changes in greenhouse gas levels. Ancient evidence can also be found in tree rings, ocean sediments, coral reefs, and layers of sedimentary rocks. This ancient, or paleoclimate, evidence reveals that current warming is occurring roughly 10 times faster than the average rate of warming after an ice age. Carbon dioxide from human activities is increasing about 250 times faster than it did from natural sources after the last Ice Age.

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Header image shows clouds imitating mountains as the sun sets after midnight as seen from Denali's backcountry Unit 13 on June 14, 2019. Credit: NPS/Emily Mesner

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Climate Change Evidence: How Do We Know?

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Vital Signs of the Planet: Global Climate Change and Global Warming. How do we know it's happening? Here's the evidence.

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After reading Why Are the Ice Caps Melting? and Buried Sunlight, students will work in a group to create an engaging poster about the increase of greenhouse gasses in the air. Students will be instructed to use minimal words to engage an audience to raise awareness about global warming. To keep in the spirit of not harming the earth, students will also be required to use only scrap paper from a scrap paper bin in the classroom or recycled paper in the recycling bin in the classroom. The poster board itself will also be made from combining recycled paper. I attached an example of a graphic students will make.

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Engagement 2--If ______ Disappeared, a Comic Life

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Engagement 2--If ______ Disappeared, a Comic Life

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After reading If Sharks Disappeared, students will create their own comic life similar to the story. Students will come up with their own animal or organism and do a little bit of research about it's role in the ecosystem. Then, students will use their knowledge about their organism to create a comic life about what would happen if their organism disappeared. These will be printed and hung around the school to raise awareness about global warming.

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Students will look at this blog post as a class.

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Students will watch this performance art by Aida Sulova

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portfolio, artist, graphic web designer, photographer, activist, Kyrgyzstan, Central Asia

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Students will help "greenify" their own classroom by starting with some examples from the books How Carbon Footprints Work and Saving Water. Students will work in teams to brainstorm ways to make the classroom greener. Then, as a class we will take one idea from each team and implement it into the classroom.

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Engagement 2--Write a Letter to a local Business

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Engagement 2--Write a Letter to a local Business

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After reading Cleaning up the Earth, one example this book shows the reader how to help the earth is by writing a letter to local businesses to ask them to use more recycled products. Students will be instructed to pick a store or a business of their choice and write a letter asking them to be greener in their business. Students will look up the owner of each store they chose, so they can direct their letter to a specific person. Students will also give examples and suggestions of how they can make their store greener.

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To help involve the community, students will pick a Saturday that they can all come to a local park to help do a park and roadside clean up. Students will write a letter inviting their family and explain the importance of cleaning up trash in their community. Students will be encouraged to invite as many people as possible to the event, Then, as a whole community, students an families will help clean up a local park or roadside.

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Supplemental Text 1--Video Ryan's Recycling Company

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Supplemental Text 1--Video Ryan's Recycling Company

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Students will watch the video about a 7 year old who created his own recycling company.

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Ryan's Recycling | Kid Entrepreneur // 60 Second Docs

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Students will look at the artist Courtney Mattison and ways that she helps the environment.

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ceramic sculptor visualizing climate change through the fragile beauty of coral reefs

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After reading One Child, One Planet and Choose to Reuse, students will have an ongoing project for two weeks. Students will have a checklist of 20 different ways they can recycle or reuse something in their daily lives (such as not running water when they brush their teeth). At the end of the two weeks, students will compare how many they were able to do. Then, they will write a brief blog post about how they felt doing this project and if they think it is easy to recycle and reuse more in their lives. Students will also include in their blog post ways that people reading their blog can recycle too.

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After reading Judy Moody Saves the World, students will raise money to plant a tree in Costa Rica. On page 117, Judy's classmate discusses how it only costs one dollar for the Children's Rain Forest in Costa Rica to plant a tree. The students in this story also organize a bottle drive. Students will raise money by recycling their plastic bottles in the classroom for one week. At the end of the week, I will recycle the bottles in the classroom at a grocery store and use that money to donate to the Children's Rain Forest. This will encourage students to not only recycle, but also raise awareness about deforestation.

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Students will work in groups to create their own Public Service Announcement video. The video will be about 2 or 3 minutes long and will educate viewers about how they can help save the earth. Students will use a class set of Ipads to record the videos and a free video editing software. Then, I will share them with other teachers and parents of students to raise awareness to the community about the environment.